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Friday, 27 September 2013

Welcome to Friday challenge time!

So let's get to the challenge! Last week we challenged you to colour an Accessory - but this week we want you to show us your....

Autumn Colours (can also include Halloween)

You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter our challenges!

Before we get to this week's inspiration and prizes, it's time to announce the winner of last week's challenge which was to show us your Halloween makes. From today we are changing our weekly prize winner to a RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR so that everyone has an equal chance of winning. IN ADDITION we will also pick a Top 3 and may ask one of those people each month to join us as a Guest Designer. So here is today's winner:

Huge congratulations to Nicole who wins a Set of 12 markers worth £30!

We're also delighted to announce that our favourite Top 3 entries are:

The winner of this week's challenge will win a fantastic prize of 6 Graph'It markers and a Mix'It Blending palette and Mix'It Fluid!

Let's get to the great team creations this week...Remember to join our Facebook group too, Graph'It Markers UK, where we have daily inspiration and share some of our favourite makes & hints and tips every day, it's a great place to be and we have some exciting news to share very soon!

I love Autumn and all the beautiful rich colours you see at this time of year! For my card I used this adorable owl image from the Bonbon Belles CDrom from Polkadoodles. The backing papers are also from the CD too!

Graph'its Used:

Owl: 3150,3160,3180,3190

Skirt: 8130, 8150, 8180

Flowers and feet: 2150,2180, 7125, 7130

Kevin
I love all the shades of rust golds and reds of Autumn so I have used some of these for my card, The image I have used is from the Fredericka Cd rom from Polkadoodles.

Simonne ... You may remember that I did a red hair colouring tutorial a few weeks ago? Well, I finished colouring the image I used for the tutorial and used it for today's challenge card. Autumn to me is browns, oranges, golds, pinks and reds!

Nikky
This Halloween image is Autumn right? Well it is in my world! I love the tones of the purples and lilac in Graph'It - purples are colours I never ever seem to use in my colouring or crafting so when it gets round to this time of year it makes a nice change for me...

I apologise because I totally forgot to write down the colours I used on this but I know for sure her cloak was done with the Pink Greys!

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Graph'It team this week!...

You have until Sunday 6th October at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize!The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 11th October here on this blog.

Please check our rules for all entries:

1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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Friday, 20 September 2013

Hey, it's Friday! Hello everyone and welcome to another challenge!

Now, before we even get started we have some great news for you all - from today's challenge onwards we shall be picking a RANDOM WINNER each week to get one of our great prizes! WOOHOO!! We're doing this as a massive thanks to you all for entering each week and we think it's much fairer that everyone gets an equal chance to win some lovely goodies, no matter how great your technique for colouring is! So from now on, if you enter then you're in the draw! We will still choose our favourite top 3 as well and they will receive a little prize too.

So our challenge for the Design Team this week was....are you ready for it?....

NO CHARACTERS!

Now, this one is a little tough, so we are bending the rules a little for you at home - you CAN use a Character but we also want you to colour in something extra too - for example, a house, a flower, a butterfly, a wall, pumpkin, cat, dog, etc etc etc....we want you to colour an accessory!

The winner of this challenge will win a set of Graph'It markers and our Top 3 faves will get a great digi download, so get your entries in by Sunday 29th!

So onto our winners from week 11 which was to show us your background techniques...we had quite a few entries for this and there were some great ideas so a huge well done to everyone! Our winners are:

Ok, let's head over to see what the Uber talented team have for you today to inspire....

Faye
This is a tough Challenge, but it can also be a lot of fun to make something other than a character the focus of your card. Originally, I was just going to use the Graffiti to make a party invite, but I kind of got carried away and coloured up a whole wall too...

Karen
Yes, I also found it a bit of a challenge but fun too, I must have had food on the brain when I was deciding what to do! I found this yummy Christmas Pudding on the PolkaDoodles 'Here Comes Christmas ' CD.

Claire
This week's theme was defnitely a challenge but I decided to have a go at colouring glass and bottled (ouch bad pun lol) out of colouring the wallpaper through the glass so I tried to add some shadow and depth around the bottom of the glass to make it look like it was standing well away from the wall.

I used neutral greys for the glass and added a little 7210 for the glass,, I also used the neutral greys for the shadows

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Graph'It team this week!...

You have until Sunday 29th September at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize!The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 5th October here on this blog.

Please check our rules for all entries:

1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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Friday, 13 September 2013

Boo! We're getting all spooky this week!

Before we give you details of our challenge this week though, let's announce the winners from our Week 10 Red and Green challenge...We had lots of entries for this one and it was hard to choose, there was some mighty fine colouring this week! Our final winners after much deliberation by the team are....1. No 16, Crafty Lawyer2. No 8, Starcyl

We loved all your work and congratulations to Crafty Lawyer who won our fabulous prize of a 6 pack of Graph'It markers and goodies worth over £30! Well done! Please email Nikky here to claim your prize and please grab your winners blinkies from the sidebar.

Let's get to the great team inspiration this week...Remember to join our Facebook group too, Graph'It Markers UK, where we have daily inspiration and share some of our favourite makes & hints and tips every day, it's a great place to be and we have some exciting news to share very soon!

Our challenge for you this week is

Halloween Colours -

you don't have to make a Halloween card (we know everyone isn't into Halloween) but you need to make sure you use Halloween colours such as purple, black, green and orange in your project - we look forward to seeing what you make! Graph'It have some fantastic Halloween colours to choose from, check these beauties out which we all love!

The winner of this challenge will receive a Set of 12 markers worth £30! Great prize!

Ok, over to the Design Team for their usual awesome inspiration and make sure you check out the blog of our Guest designer, Anjie McChesney this week! ....

Cara
I love Halloween and Graph'it Markers are perfect for the bold bright colours associated with it, I used my purple and orange shades for this with a splash of lime green! I used this great download from Polkadoodles which is so cute!

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Graph'It team this week!...

You have until Sunday 22nd September at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize!The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 28th September here on this blog.

Please check our rules for all entries:

1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter our challenges!

We loved all your work and congratulations to Lucy who won our fabulous prize of 6 Graph'It Skintones, a Mix'It palette and Mix'It Fluid!! Laine has also won this week and will be receiving a 3pack of Graph'It Romance colours too! Well done! Please email Nikky here to claim your prize and please grab your winners blinkies from the sidebar.

The winner of this week's challenge will win a fantastic prize of 6 Graph'It Xmas Colours - perfect for this time of year!

So let's get to the great team inspiration this week...Remember to join our Facebook group too, Graph'It Markers UK, where we have daily inspiration and share some of our favourite makes & hints and tips every day, it's a great place to be!

I've used an image from the fab Polkadoodles CD 'Here Comes Christmas' , coloured it with my Graph'Its and overlaid it with acetate. My background was actually created on the acetate by colouring with 7130 for the sky and 1280 for the light from the lamp, I sprayed with Mix'It spray to create the snowy effect ... easy!

I also used an image from the PolkaDoodles CD 'Here Comes Christmas'. I wanted to create a winter sky so I used 3 different shades 7105 7110 9100 layered over each other and then used my Blender to bring them together and lighten some areas, really easy and very effective I think!

I love this image from the Polkadoodles BonBon Belles CD Rom, it just says summer to me. And, with all of the space around the toadstools and birdhouse, it works really well with the smooshy, dotty background I love to do with Graph'It Markers...

The only stamp used on my card is the sentiment, I played with my Graph'It Markers, Mix'It Fluid and a Stencil to create my background effect.

Colours;

5245, 9909 and Mix'It Fluid.

Nikky
I love thinking of different background effects I can do with my Graph'Its but this particular one is a very old favourite of mine...

I used the Premium Art Brands Snowy Cottage and Winter spruce stamps on this and created a sky and snowy scene. The snow is made using Mix'It fluid....this stuff is SO addictive, I find I just sit there trying to think of new ways to use it all the time!

Colours:

sky/blues: 4120, 7220, 7240, 7250, 7260, 7270,

Trees: 7290, 8280, 8260

Windows:1170, 2180

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Graph'It team this week!...

You have until Sunday 15th Sept at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 20th September here on this blog.

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I thought I'd share how I create the Splodgy, Dotty Backgrounds I do from time to time, the technique is perfect for the firmer nib you get on a Graph'It Marker. And you may it helpful for our next Challenge, that's all I'm sayin'! ;)

First up, you need to lay down a rough base layer of colour, it really doesn't matter how uneven or rough it is, as we are going over it a few times. I've used 9100 (and 9404, 9406 for the ground):

When your base coat has dried, we are going to start adding dots. Lots and lots of dots. If it sounds like there is a woodpecker in the room with you, you're on the right track:

When that layer has dried, (you can do it when it's wet, your dots will look softer, and you need to work faster, so it depends on the effect you want, really) you do it all over again, to give some depth of colour, closer to the image (I was fast with the camera for this photo, the ink is still very wet!):

And then we go again, but this time with 9102 in the areas that may be a little darker:

One more time, Peeps, but this time, we want to use 0000, to add lighter dots and create texture:

Job done:

Don't forget to pop back later to get all the details of our new Challenge and find out if you're a winner!